Striking pictorial works demonstrate the importance, and beauty, of textiles across cultures and time.

Since subtle modulations of light and dark are so difficult to achieve with threads, tapestry designs tended to be flat and congested. But as Tom Campbell, the director of the Fine Arts Museums of ...

“Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries,” on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston through May 26, is part art exhibition, part history lecture and endlessly fascinating. The seven tapestries ...

Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries runs March 2-May 26 at the Caroline Weiss Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. For information call 713-639-7300 or ...

Campbell, a renowned tapestry expert and director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which will host this exhibition next fall. These exquisite tapestries require time to truly appreciate.

the Minneapolis Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. “The tapestries were luxury items,” museum docent Ann Morton said. “So this is putting tapestries back (in the ...

Sumptuous, large, heavy and used in centuries past to warm the walls of Europe’s great stone castles and cathedrals, tapestries conjure a long-ago world. They tell expansive tales of courtly ...